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Not wound up, just pointing out that you were complaining about someone "mining" quotes all the while you were doing the same thing.
No back peddling, you changed your quote to make it seem like you did not "mine" a quote....
You would have a case if indeed my intent was to quote mine Trump.
However since you think that was my intent that's your issue not mine.
My intent was to provide evidence that Trump downplayed this pandemic for 6 weeks before he had no other choice but to face reality.
ok, that's March 31 (article date). Since then, cases have gone from 125K to 1MM. What have they learned from all those cases since then? Especially the asymptomatic ones?
I think you will have to ask them what they've learned.
U.S. death toll passes 60,000 mark Trump said would mark success in coronavirus fight
All I can say is "what a fools believes."
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The United States passed 60,000 coronavirus deaths on Wednesday, according to data from Johns Hopkins University, more than three months earlier than had been predicted by a model the White House has frequently used.
Until recently, the 60,000 mark was touted by President Trump as a measure of success.
Just 10 days ago, Trump said that as many as 60,000 Americans were expected to die from the coronavirus. That was far below earlier estimates of 100,000 to 200,000 from the White House coronavirus task force, and the high range of over 2 million predicted by British researchers on the assumption that no social distancing measures would be implemented.
“Now we’re going toward 50 — I’m hearing, or 60,000 people. One is too many. I always say it,” Trump said during a coronavirus task force briefing at the White House. “But we would have had millions of deaths instead of — it looks like we’ll be at about a 60,000 mark, which is 40,000 less than the lowest number thought of.”
Another day, another shameless attempt to politicize a global pandemic and the deaths of tens of thousands of Americans. You are hopefully aware that 60,000 died of the flu a year or two ago? At least, that's the number CNN was throwing around.
That model is now at 72K and will likely grow even more than that as it gives very heavy weighting to social distancing and closures that are now being rolled back prematurely (for the model). It was rerun again yesterday and already is underpredicting by over 1000. 100K is certainly not out of the question by August.
Look, this is not bigfoot or flatearth or 5G. This is life or death for some people.
It's sad, but some people, for lack of IQ or common sense - will, in fact, do whatever you tell them. They won't research it, they won't learn it on their own, they won't know right from wrong. They will simply do what the nice dr. on TV told them.
And those guys are saying, "It's safe! You are free to infect the country!"
We can't have that. They are LIKELY incorrect - and that is unsafe. Not a little unsafe. Hugely unsafe. I'm not saying it's NOT censorship, although I confess to not understanding the legal things there.
Let's leave covid out for this example:
If those two doctors posted a video that said Ebola isn't contagious, but to cure your own, you must tongue kiss your neighbor - that would be hugely irresponsible, and censorship or not, it's gotta go. Can't have that. Too many morons right now. It's not about what you do to yourself - it's that you believe the video, and then you kill your neighbor.
Donald Trump's failure to test and impose distancing rules for two months let virus gain a foothold and led to the current increases in cases and a death toll of over 60,000 and counting.
And when you add I hope that's true....that takes the narrative away from being down played.
I don't think so even after removing the quote that's driven you to hysteria.
In the early days of the virus’s spread in the United States, Trump repeatedly emphasized that everything was “under control” and that the virus would just “disappear” in warmer months.
Jan. 22 Trump states: “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China, and we have it under control. It’s going to be just fine.”
Feb. 24 Trump tweets: “The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA. … Stock Market starting to look very good to me!”
Feb. 27 Trump states: “It’s going to disappear. One day, it’s like a miracle, it will disappear.”
March 4th Trump claims: “I think the 3.4 percent [fatality rate] is really a false number.”
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But whatever, you're just like most anti-trumpers....you'll spin, twist, and whatever it takes to be proven correct.
So are you trying to claim that Trump did not drag his feet for 6 weeks all the while downplaying the seriousness of this virus?
Trump fans act just like Trump in downplaying this virus...not only that, they downplay that Trump downplayed this virus. LOL!
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U.S. death toll passes 60,000 mark Trump said would mark success in coronavirus fight
